Whether you’re describing the sound of your faulty car engine or meowing like your neighbor’s cat, imitating sounds with your voice can be a helpful way to relay a concept when words don’t do the trick. Vocal imitation is the sonic equivalent of doodling a quick picture to communicate something you saw — except that […]

While most AI companies chase viral moments, Anthropic has made waves once again with a potential $2 billion investment, pushing their valuation to $60 billion. Currently in advanced talks according to the WSJ, the move would place them among America’s top five most valuable startups, shoulder to shoulder with SpaceX, OpenAI, Stripe, and Databricks. At […]

Sanket Shah, CEO and Founder of InVideo, established the company in 2017 to address the need for an accessible and efficient video creation solution. Recognizing the challenges faced by users without advanced editing skills or creative backgrounds, Shah developed a platform that simplifies the process of producing high-quality video content. Since its inception, InVideo has […]

To date, Facial Attractiveness Prediction (FAP) has primarily been studied in the context of psychological research, in the beauty and cosmetics industry, and in the context of cosmetic surgery. It’s a challenging field of study, since standards of beauty tend to be national rather than global. This means that no single effective AI-based dataset is […]

Fermata, a trailblazer in data science and computer vision for agriculture, has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Raw Ventures. The investment will accelerate Fermata’s mission to transform the horticulture industry by building a centralized digital “brain” that combines advanced data analysis, AI-driven insights, and continuous learning to empower growers […]

Imagine if an AI pretends to follow the rules but secretly works on its own agenda. That’s the idea behind “alignment faking,” an AI behavior recently exposed by Anthropic’s Alignment Science team and Redwood Research. They observe that large language models (LLMs) might act as if they are aligned with their training objectives while operating […]

Karthik Ranganathan is co-founder and co-CEO of Yugabyte, the company behind YugabyteDB, the open-source, high-performance distributed PostgreSQL database. Karthik is a seasoned data expert and former Facebook engineer who founded Yugabyte alongside two of his Facebook colleagues to revolutionize distributed databases. What inspired you to co-found Yugabyte, and what gaps in the market did you […]

As we move into 2025, the cybersecurity landscape is entering a critical period of transformation. The advancements in artificial intelligence that have driven innovation and progress for the last several years, are now poised to become a double-edged sword. As security professionals, these tools promise new capabilities for defense and resilience. On the other hand, […]

Due to the nature of some of the material discussed here, this article will contain fewer reference links and illustrations than usual. Something noteworthy is currently happening in the AI synthesis community, though its significance may take a while to become clear. Hobbyists are training generative AI video models to reproduce the likenesses of people, […]

Training large language models (LLMs) has become out of reach for most organizations. With costs running into millions and compute requirements that would make a supercomputer sweat, AI development has remained locked behind the doors of tech giants. But Google just flipped this story on its head with an approach so simple it makes you […]

Picture this: you wake up, check your social feeds, and find the same incendiary headline repeated by hundreds of accounts—each post crafted to trigger outrage or alarm. By the time you’ve brewed your morning coffee, the story has gone viral, eclipsing legitimate news and sparking heated debates across the internet. This scene isn’t a hypothetical […]